Sunday, April 24, 2016

Add these 5 IoT Starter kits to your IOT Arsenal

The following five kits are Microsoft Azure Certified and these includes sensors and actuators. There is excellent support in the form of user-friendly tutorials that connect your devices to Microsoft Azure IOT.

The following are the kits that are Microsoft Azure Certified (taken from Microsoft Site):

Adafruit Raspberry Pi Kit:
Powered by Windows 10, this credit-card sized computer is capable of many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing or even playing video games. This kit provides all the necessary sensors and components to get started using Raspberry Pi and Azure IoT.More info here.(https://www.adafruit.com/azure)

Adafruit Feather M0 Kit:
Feather is the new development board from Adafruit, and like its namesake it is thin and light. Adafruit designed Feather to be a new standard for portable microcontroller cores. This is the Adafruit Feather M0 WiFi w/ATWINC1500 - our take on an 'all-in-one' Arduino-compatible + high speed, reliable WiFi with built in USB and battery charging.

Adafruit Huzzah Feather ESP8266 Kit:
Designed for those who want to use the new low-cost Adafruit Feather HUZZAH with ESP8266 WiFi microcontroller and are comfortable with that platform to explore Azure IoT. An Arduino or other microcontroller is not required.

SparkFun Thing Dev Kit: ($39.95)
Designed around the ESP8266 SOC, the Thing Dev board is a cost-effective, and very capable Wi-Fi-enabled microcontroller. This kit provides all the necessary sensors and components to get started using the ThingDev microcontroller and Azure IoT.